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All those moron genes so close together could create a black hole!

Yeah, but the foreigners don't want to go home suntanned on only the top half of their head after 2 weeks! ???? ????

Because foreigners are coming from countries where the governments have realised the futility of masking and have removed mask mandates, so foreigners are not in the habit of carrying/wearing them.

I think the underlying issue here is not the wearing of mask but the threat of making them legally compulsory. So much for freedom of choice. Having said that, helmets are a legal requirement when travelling on a motorcycle and no one takes a blind bit of notice of that law, (or the new car seat law would be my guess). It's such a contradiction though - "We'll declare Covid endemic", "You must wear a mask". Utter nonsense. Influenza is endemic, Measles, Mumps, Rubella are all endemic but they have never enforced mask wearing for those. They're using Covid as an excuse to maintain control and nothing more. Once Covid is endemic the Emergency Powers SHOULD be rescinded, but they won't be.

True, but whenever that sort of thing is suggested everyone immediately thinks of the politicians. They are not the problem. The real problem is the people holding the reins of power - the civil service. Things never change with successive governments because the political parties are not in charge. They have ideas and then the civil service tells them why they can't do it. Now, if the civil servants were directly connected to the parties then when a party gets voted out of office the civil servants would go too, then they might care more about what the voting public wants. As it stands they only care about increasing their wealth and sticking around long enough to get one of the best pension packages available in the public sector in the UK.

Well, as far as these boat people are concerned they ARE asylum seekers. Genuine asylum seekers I have no issue with, however, these characters in the boats only claim to be asylum seekers when caught. Genuine asylum seekers with a GENUINE claim for asylum can (and do) use the specified channels to apply. These guys on the boats are economic migrants who just use the asylum claim to prevent them being booted backout to sea. If their claims were genuine they would not be ditching their identity documents intothe channel on the way across.

Will this do, seeing as it is feom the UK government website?: This from the Gov.uk site: Asylum support 1. Overview 2. What you'll get 3. Eligibility 4. How to claim 5. Further information What you'll get You can ask for somewhere to live, a cash allowance or both as an asylum seeker. Housing You’ll be given somewhere to live if you need it. This could be in a flat, house, hostel or bed and breakfast. You cannot choose where you live. It’s unlikely you’ll get to live in London or south-east England. Cash support You’ll get £40.85 for each person in your household. This will help you pay for things you need like food, clothing and toiletries. Your allowance will be loaded onto a debit card (ASPEN card) each week. You’ll be able to use the card to get cash from a cash machine. If you’ve been refused asylum You’ll be given: • somewhere to live • £40.85 per person on a payment card for food, clothing and toiletries You will not be given: • the payment card if you do not take the offer of somewhere to live • any money So, the latest government figures show that 37,000 illegals/asylum seekers is costing 4.7million pounds a day foraccommodation alone. That's 127.02 per person per day. Add in the 5.83 on their payment card, free meals (forthose in hotel accommodation) Wi-Fi, no electricity bills, water bills council tax. Here are the figures: 1. Food - Assuming you live by yourself, the average monthly grocery bill for one person in the UK is £137 (£32 per week). (Source: https://themindfulmoneyproject.com/average-food-budget-in-the-uk-how-do-you-compare/) 2. Electricity - Data published by Ofgem, the energy market regulator, shows that in September 2021 the average UK energy bill was £95 per month, or £1,138 a year. (Source: https://www.edfenergy.com/for-home/energywise/what-is-the-average-energy-bill-in-the-uk) 3. Internet/Wi-Fi - On average, you should expect to pay around $60 a month for high-speed internet. However, prices can range between $20 and $100 per month or more depending on where you live, which provider you choose, and which plan you go with. (Source: https://www.move.org/how-much-pay-for-internet/) 4. Water - the average UK household's bill for water and sewage at £385 per year, or about £32 per month. (Source: https://www.uswitch.com/water/price-of-water/) Total per week – Food £32.00 Electricity £23.75 Internet £15.00 Water £7.40 Rent £127.02 Total cost pp/wk £205.17 Additional payment (via prepaid card) £40.85 Each illegal asylum arrival in the UK therefore receives up to £246.02 per week from government funds, even after their asylum claim has been rejected. Conversely: The full new State Pension is £185.15 per week. The actual amount you get depends on your National Insurance record.(Source: https://www.gov.uk/new-state-pension/what-youll-get#:~:text=The%20full%20new%20State%20Pension,amount%20of%20Additional%20State%20Pension) So, the British government spends, on average, £60.90 more per week on illegal asylum seekers than on their own people who have contributed NIC payments for decades. Does that satisfy your desire for details?

How is going home going to stop 1000 illegal immigrants a month arriving and putting a drain on governemnt funds? 4.7 million pounds a day on hotel accommodation alone for 37,000 "asylum seekers". Add in the 40.85 pounds a week spending money per person. That takes it to 5 million a day, or 1.825 billion a year for chancers but they can't stretch to 0.6 billion for people who have earned their pension. There's nothing "racist" about expection your nation to look after it's own people before foreigners, if that's your belief then Thailand is incredibly racist.

As it stands at the moment you get the State Pension increases if you retire to: Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Barbados Bermuda Bosnia-Herzegovina Gibraltar Guernsey the Isle of Man Israel Jamaica Jersey Kosovo Mauritius Montenegro North Macedonia the Philippines Serbia Turkey USA Anywhere else (including New Zealand and Canada which have the same agreements in place as Israel, the Philippines etc.) you don’t get the increases.

Is it just me, or does that sound like they don't want to but are being forced to?

From Reuters Fact Check team: "VERDICT False. Illegal immigrants cannot receive benefits. While refugees are eligible to the same benefits as UK nationals, these are capped far below £29,900. A pensioner who has worked for 45 years would be entitled to a minimum of £6,981 a year. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts here ." I have underlined the word "cannot" because it is a clever use of language by Reuters. Factually, they are correct, however, there is a big difference between "cannot" and "do not" a term they carefully avoided so as not to shoot their own fact check down in flames. Illegal immigrants arriving in the UK are housed (be it in hotels or other accommodation) fed, and given an allowance for personal spending. THESE ARE BENEFITS! They may not be State Benefits, as received by the British population, but they are still benefits. So, maybe someone needs to Fact Check the Fact Check.

True, they are not "entitled" to benefits, that doesn't mean they are not getting them. They are housed in hotels and other accommodation at the tax payers expense, THAT is a benefit (not offered to the homeless ex-servicemen and women living rough on the streets). To be honest, I would be infavour of giving the "asylum" seekers picked up in the channel benefits...... in the form of a one way flight ticket to the Rwanda assessment centre.

What IS a drain on the NHS is the millions they spend each year: 1. On teams of managers to manage a smaller team of nursing staff. 2. The hundreds of thousands of pounds (if not millions) they are forking out for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity officers in NHS trusts with pay scales from 70k upward each. 3. The millions each year spent treating illegal immigrants who already cost the UK 5 million a week to house and feed. The NHS costs the British taxpayer 1.4 billion a week to run. Most of that goes to management teams and external contractors. The pension payments overseas are an issue for me because of the disparity. If you choose to retire to one country you can get the increases, the country next to it you don't. Either give all overseas retirees the annual increases or none of them.

or on a Honda Swift or PCX?

“We still have to be cautious and continue to closely monitor the situation of Omicron and other new variants that could happen in the future,” Prayut said after the meeting. “We have to plan for them and adjust our measures accordingly and timely,” he said. Hmm, IOW, never going to happen. Planning for future events that you have no idea what they will be or if they will ever occur is futile. Based on that logic all new-born baby boys should be fitted with a condom once the umbilicle is cut in case they catch some STD later in life. It MAY happen but in the meantime you just make life harder for the baby and all those connected with him.

Yep. Busiest week of every semester is the week before final exams when you're writing exam papers, completing the records books and THAT'S when you suddenly get bombarded with the homework for the entire semester as the students make a last ditched effort to bump their score. I'm forever being told I should "follow up" on students who don't hand in work on time. Okay, I can dig that, however, I also have to prepare hybrid lessons because half the class are in school and half are online, write reports on every online lesson, and a myriad of other pointless admin forms that are never read. Then there's the issue of "activities". Even when the kids are in the classroom full time they have so many activity days that lesson plans and SOWs go by the wayside. One school cut every lesson by 10 minutes so they could have sports each day for a fortnight followed by 4 days for the "School Sports Day." With the wierd system of not having any gap between one lesson ending and the next one starting most lessons (at 50 minutes per lesson) are actually only 40 minutes long by the time most of the class has arrived. The education system in Thailand needs a complete overhaul and the MoE has had 2 years to do this but chose not to. It's as if they don't want the kids to be educated. I've even seen Thai teachers sitting with student's workbooks, rubbing out the incorrect answers and putting the right answers in so the parents think their kid is doing well. If Thailand is so enamoured by all things Chinese, why can't they look at Chinese education for inspiration? Oh that's right, an uneducated population is more compliant.

" If you are a foreigner employed by a Thai (or foreign) company you are also covered under social security and don't need this insurance either. " Okay, but not if you're over 60, I've been here a few years now but can't enjoy a break to VN because I'd have to take out EVEN MORE insurance to cover the Covid insurance requirement because my policy doesn't specifically mention the level of Covid cover. All of my work colleagues are younget than me so get Soc. Sec. cover and therefore do not see 25% of their income disappear just to cover healthcare.

And Thais have the added advantage of having easy access to credit. Buying a car, - on credit. Another kid on the way and need a bigger place - rack up more debt. Getting a bank loan because some Grab delivery guy has written of the PCX you scriped and saved for a year to buy so you could get to work is nigh on impossible for a foreigner. So, yes, maybe the average Thai CAN live comfortably on 30k a month, taking into consideration that anything up to 50% of that is going towards paying off debts. For foreigners, without access to credit, it requires a lot of saving and that's not easy on 30k in Bangkok, especially if you're in the upper age limit group (60+) where, even working, you can't get Soc. Sec. so have to pay for health insurance. Mine already takes up 25% of my wage, another 25% on rent, 15% on utilities. That leaves me about 10k for everything else. It's doable, if I don't go out, eat from roadside vendors and don't take holidays. Saving is out of the question though. And then I go to work and see my Thai colleagues who earn the same, or less than I do, driving up in Fortuners, MGs, and posting online pics of their trips to Phuket and Pattaya.

Pushback from airlines is the likeliest as their system would mean more work for airlines and booking agensts as they would not be taking 300 baht off of everyone. So the airlines would have to implement systems to differentiate between different nationalities (not all nationalities would have to pay), visa staus, and various other factors. All of which meant more work/expense for the airlines far in excess of the amount of money being raised by the 300 fee and none of that fee was going to the airline anyway. I can understand them adding the 300 fee, many countries do similar, but since they already have the 700 departure fee included in the ticket price the only options are: 1. Charge EVERYONE, regardless of nationality, visa etc. 2. Don't add it to the ticket price, add it to the hotel bill or, make them pay on arrival. So long as they are warned in advance to have 300 baht ready on arrival they can pay on their way through immigration. As for the Covid insurance, okay, for TOURISTS I can, sort of, understand it, don't like it but I can sort of understand it. However, for foreigners who have lived here for years and already have O or OA visas, why make them do the Thai pass? Especially since they no doubt have a re-entry permit. It they are being made to fulfill the Thai Pass criteria then Thais should too.

Nah, now that top cop is hiding away in Aus they'll be getting back to the trafficking business. Big money to be made for blonde females in middle eastern countries.

And it's not just the pension itself. My parents retired to France and still got things like the winter heating allowance!

That's why he said "travellers". That way when Mr. and Mrs. Watsitporn and their 2 kids go to Buriram by train for a few days he can count them as "travellers" both going and returning. Or maybe he's referring to how many journeys were made on Thai roads where someone DIDN'T die. Either way, the 160 million figure has <deleted> all to do with tourists.

Well, I'd agree if they had given a list of the ranks of those sacked. My guess is that there won't have been many middle or high ranking officers. (The middle ranks get "let go" so they can keep their pension rights and the higher ranks get ignored). My guess is all, or most, were lower ranks. Here's the problem, why did they do what they did? Mainly because that's what they have seen from their superiors, the "monkey see, monkey do" concept. Sacking these minor figures is just a gaslighting job by the government to convince the feeble minded that they are serious about stamping out corruption. Obviously their not, they can't afford to be because it wouldn't be long before the anti corruption guys would be coming for them. Be honest, if the Anti Corruption Team decided to use the evidence, they have no doubt hidden, that they have on the politicians in power, howe long do you think it would be before the army were back on the streets and those same politicians were back in uniform?

Sacked, can't come back. Let go, give it six months and we'll find you a nice promoted job away from the spotlight.

We'd be, as westerners, on shakey ground regarding "being unqualified for the job" due to the amount of Diversity, Inclusivity and Equality being used in businesses, corporations and even governments these days.